France Under One Roof
More than 50 importers and producers will be exhibiting at the France Under One Roof tasting next Tuesday (March 24) at Lord's Cricket Ground between 10am and 5.30pm.
Read more...More than 50 importers and producers will be exhibiting at the France Under One Roof tasting next Tuesday (March 24) at Lord's Cricket Ground between 10am and 5.30pm.
Read more...
What our national wine critics had to say for the weekend of March 14-15
Jack Daniel's and Southern Comfort producer Brown-Forman saw net sales fall by 11% in the three months to Jan 31, largely through the impact of the strong US dollar reducing the value of export sales.
Read more...Major wine and spirits trade exhibition Vinexpo has reappointed drinks specialist Voice PR to conduct public relations in the UK for the 2009 exhibition.
Read more...The consumption of illicit or noncommercial alcohol is widespread in many countries worldwide and contributes significantly to the global burden of disease, according to a new report by the International Center for Alcohol Policies (ICAP).
Read more...InBev has completed its $52 billion (£35 million) takeover of Anheuser-Busch, creating the world's largest brewer.
Read more...The global popularity of British food and drink has hit record heights, with annual exports on track to exceed £13bn for the first time in history, according to new figures released this week.
Read more...The Mirror
Pubs and shops have been warned of a potentially lethal bootleg booze scam in the run-up to Christmas. spirits from Eastern Europe are being sold for a fraction of the normal cost, but laced with toxic levels of methanol - a chemical that can cause blindness and even death. Kirov and Glen's vodka are among the spirits to be switched.
International Beverage Holdings, parent company of Inver House Distillers, is to invest £15 million to centralise its global marketing operations in Scotland.
Read more...Diageo has announced plans to build a bioenergy facility at its spirits distillery in Fife, which it says will reduce its annual CO2 emissions by 56,000 - the equivalent of taking 44,000 family cars off the road.
Read more...Glenmorangie has seen a boost in trade with profits standing at £12.6m, according to The Scotsman newspaper.
Read more...Around 150,000 visitors descended on Vinitaly, held in Verona on April 3-7.
Harpers' first French podcast, produced in association with Thierry's, covers March's 'France under One Roof Tasting' at Lord's Cricket Ground.
Read more...Britons are the highest spenders on fair-trade products, according to a new report from Datamonitor.
Read more...Hong Kong has been named as the venue for the 2008 Vinexpo Asia-Pacific conference.
Read more...More than 50,000 people from 154 countries attended this year's Vinexpo wine fair in Bordeaux, a 3% rise on the previous event in 2005.
Read more...Organisers of the 2007 International Wine and Spirit Competition (IWSC) have staggered the results to fit in with Southern hemisphere-based producers' production cycles.
The world's biggest wine and spirit fair sees a record number of foreign visitors.
French customs impound the country's wines for two days forcing scores of wine producers to miss the world's largest wine fair.
Vinexpo has been officially opened by the Mayor of Bordeaux